Electric Writing: Cyberporn and communication decency

摘要

On 1 February 1996m a US Government statute called the Communications Decency Act (CDA) was passed by Congress, with the intent of controlling Internet pornog- Raphy and making the Net safe for children by banning 'indecent' content. A widely criticised Time magazine cover story on 'cyberporn', based on a paper published by the Georgetown Law Journal, had some influence on the preceding political debate, and presents an interesting case study of academic and commercial publishing and jour- nalism.